Too Much Salt to My Taste: An Entity to Think about in Neonatal Hypernatremia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

• Autores principales: Marwa El Masri (Autor), Lidiya Samotiy-Hanna (Autor), Ramy Ghabril (Autor), Yolla Nassif (Autor), Dany Al Hamod (Autor)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Hindawi Limited, 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Materias: article
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In exclusively breastfed newborns, hypernatremic dehydration is associated with a free water deficit secondary to insufficient fluid intake. Failure of newborns to regain their birth weight by the 10th day of life should be investigated urgently. In this report, we present a case of a 2 -week-old gi...